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Horror of horrors, we may not have big government to run our lives, take care of all our needs and give us our wants after 2012. This is a bad thing?

At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America.

That's kinda funny since self-reliance used to be the norm. It is only a problem now because government over the last decades has fostered a nation of dependents.

“The one thing that we absolutely know for sure is that if we don’t work even harder than we did in 2008, then we’re going to have a government that tells the American people, ‘you are on your own,’” Obama told a crowd of 200 donors over lunch at the W Hotel.

“If you get sick, you’re on your own. If you can’t afford college, you’re on your own. If you don’t like that some corporation is polluting your air or the air that your child breathes, then you’re on your own,” he said. “That’s not the America I believe in. It’s not the America you believe in.”

And it's not the America it will be, even if he's not elected again. This is like the comment by Pelosi about women dying on the floor, full of vivid imagery and untruth. I think it wouldn't hurt for people to take a little more personal responsibility for themselves.

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day (and expect another fish tomorrow?). Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.